I can hate IE and still support it. Honest! What I do, personally, is create a minimum functionality that will work in all browsers. Then, if I see a need that goes beyond that, and only some of the browsers support it, fine. As long as it doesn't degrade the minimum functionality in all browsers, I'm willing to add it. That is what the page numbers markup currently does. It hides the page numbers for those the minimum, default behavior, but if you have a browser that supports it, you can see those page numbers appear. Similarly with poetry. It has features that allow the browser to rewrap nicely if there is a long line, if the necessary CSS support is there ... but if not, it still displays the poem with its normal indents, it just doesn't rewrap nicely for you. If I try something and it dies on one of the browsers, I take it back out or find another compatible way. In my case, at the very least, if you find something I've worked on that does NOT degrade gracefully in Lynx, etc.... Let me know. I consider that a bug in my work. Josh ----- Original Message ----- From: "D. Starner" <shalesller@writeme.com> To: "Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion" <gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org> Subject: re: Re: [gutvol-d] Re: aspects of a well-done e-book Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 09:21:03 -0800
"David A. Desrosiers" writes:
a big shame, since i.e. still has -- what -- 93% of all surfers?
And decreasing every day.
Users aren't using MSIE because it is the superior product, they're using it because they have no idea there are significanly more secure, functional, compliant browser alternatives out there, and because it came with their pee-cee, with a nice convenient icon right on their desktop.
And nothing's going to fix that in the forseeable future. And what about us who serf the net through the services of a library, and have no option on which browser to use?
I really think you'll are dismissing IE and Lynx too quickly. We can't just support Mozilla, now or in the future. -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm
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